If you’re seeing this error when you’re trying to build a package with Web Deploy then you have some deeply nested folders in your project which is causing the problem. A common problem web developers of 2015 have to wrestle with is fighting the Node Package Manager on a Windows developer box. Read on to get this issue quickly solved so you can deploy your site.

Orchard CMS is a great asp.net MVC based CMS which is really flexible but as it stands its upgrade process is a long and complex process far from the simplicity of WordPress and other competitors. After you have followed their many-step upgrade process you will need to bring any custom themes or modules back into your main solution. At this point I started getting hit with compile time errors. With a huge solution like Orchard it can be be daunting task to figure out the solution but after some digging around I figured out what was causing this particular issue.

For a few versions now WordPress has had a gallery shortcode feature that you can add in via the Add Media button. Getting it to play nice with your theme however can take a bit than is really needed. Here are a couple of tips I picked up when I had to customise it for a recent client project.

You might not need this right now but if you’re using a Windows 8 or newer computer then you should have this information tucked away for when that rainy day inevitably comes pouring down on your precious data. In this article I explain the updates to chkdsk and why you don’t need to chkdsk /f any more.

We have a wireless repeater in our house which boosts the signal to a full five bars at even the farthest reaches of the house. It’s worked pretty well except needing to be rebooted here and there but recently it completely stopped working. If you’re connecting to your repeater but then getting “Unidentified Network” and no internet connectivity then read on to see how I solved this.